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…I thought of the thousands of residents of Gaza killed in retaliation for the lives of Jews killed by Hamas. Then I thought that, if I were to state this publicly in Germany, I might get in trouble.
In 2008, when then Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke before the Knesset, on the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel (…) This, she went on, was part of Germany’s Staatsräson—the reason for the existence of the state.
But the statistics mix what Germans call Israelbezogener Antisemitismus—Israel-related antisemitism, such as instances of criticism of Israeli government policies—with violent attacks,
The Holocaust memory wars in Poland have run in parallel with Germany’s. The ideas being battled out in the two countries are different, but one consistent feature is the involvement of right-wing politicians in conjunction with the state of Israel.
Still, both before and after the October 7th attack, the phrase I heard in Ukraine possibly more than any other was “We need to be like Israel.”
For the last seventeen years, Gaza has been a hyperdensely populated, impoverished, walled-in compound where only a small fraction of the population had the right to leave for even a short amount of time—in other words, a ghetto. Not like the Jewish ghetto in Venice or an inner-city ghetto in America but like a Jewish ghetto in an Eastern European country occupied by Nazi Germany.
Here’s more evidence of un bias against Israel, with citations.
I thought the YouTube video was pretty powerful, the takeaway is that the Muslim countries drove Jews from their lands while holding Israel to a different standard than they themselves hold. They complain of apartheid (which doesn’t seem like a valid classification considering 20% of Israelis are Arabs with full rights,) while they do worse and defend and justify a group that is explicitly genocidal and remains belligerent despite being defeated over and over again. These countries historically are quite happy to partake in genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, etc., and polls indicate that is still the goal of most Palestinians today. They inappropriately accuse Israel of all the same behaviors via loose definitions, (most such definitions depend upon treating national groups like ethnic groups.)
For the history of this conflict, I find Wikipedia to be a better source.
FDD is not unbiased, it’s just pro-Israel as they mention in their site.
https://www.fdd.org/projects/israel-program/
The wiki page you provided mostly uses for bibliography Israel’s favorite historian, Benny Morris, which you try to portray as unbiased?
I’m afraid none of the links you provided escapes bias. On the contrary, they are propaganda.
In relation to unbiased sources -and since you didn’t like the UN link- I would go more with something like Jewish voice for Peace. I’m pretty sure you can’t claim they have:
[edit: and you upvote yourself? Don’t you know that in kbin we have visibility over that?]
Okay, but they are a good source for criticism of Israel’s treatment at the UN. Here’s another from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_United_Nations#Allegations_of_bias
That article has 135+ citations, only 10 of which are by Morris.
I don’t see any history at all at the link you provided,
You still haven’t provided any link with unbiased history on the topic of Israel-Palestine? It was your turn to try to do that. Actually as establish previously, you didn’t even have a convincing argument that the UN is pro-Arab.
You are talking about the 135 notes. Out of the 6 books in Bibliography, 3 of them are Benny’s, as of today.
While you keep upvoting yourself? lol
So, why are all the borders closed? Not just that to Israel?